Submitted by Dandelion G. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Every year the states oil industry produces some 130 billion gallons of wastewater. But where do oil companies put this dirty fluid? Injected into protected California aquifers clean enough to drink and to irrigate crops.

Submitted by Dandelion G. to Health & Wellness | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>A US soldier, who no longer wanted to fight in Iraq and went Awol, sought asylum in Germany. Andre Shepherd said Fallujah opened my eyes. Recalling the video Collateral Murder that Bradley Chelsea Manning released it to Wikileaks and exposed harsh truth.Submitted by Dandelion G. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Between Steven Van Zandt short speech in the beginning to the song he wrote and sang in this video back in 1984 is just as relevant today as it was back then. There have been the messengers but overall it seems to be unheard by too many. Rock on!Submitted by Dandelion G. to Offbeat | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>I know it is 30 minutes long but how long is that to return the USA Republic to us. I hope that every American would watch this video he explains in very simple ways to bring all our issues to a core focal point. No matter what party all can get behind itSubmitted by Dandelion G. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>CPAC saved for Saturday morning one of its rising stars, 22 year old South Dakota TV host Tomi Lahren, who spent part of her speech addressing complaints about the lack of diversity on America’s right. Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Diplomacy with Iran is working, and there is strong evidence that a final deal is within reach. Some in Congress are pushing dangerous legislation that would pass new sanctions on Iran, which would blow up negotiations. It's a reckless approach. Submitted by Dandelion G. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>If you're a fan of high school basketball, you're not alone. But if you're a fan of the Gainesville Tornadoes in Gainesville, Texas then you are alone. The other students at Gainesville, a juvenile correction facility for felony offenders don't come ...Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, 3 short takes, and a homemade cartoon (shown).Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>See 1st comment.Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>See 1st comment.Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Israel has circumvented international law to classify Palestinian children as minors only up to the age of 16, in clear violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in order to arrest and detain Palestinian youths.Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>In a wide ranging interview with Rolling Stone, timed before the release of his new album, singer-musician Kid Rock talked about buying guns before "Obummer" banned them, Beyonce, and called Mitt Romney“the most decent motherf*cker I've ever met".Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>A rally by hundreds of American Muslims at the Oklahoma Capitol on Friday to promote religious tolerance was interrupted by anti-Islamic protesters holding signs proclaiming the United States a Christian nation.Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>'Right-to-Work is a continuation of the destructive policies of the Scott Walker administration that have cost Wisconsin jobs and economic opportunity.'Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Republican presidential hopeful says battle against organized workers has prepared him to take on foreign militants.Walker indicated that his ongoing attack on the rights of workers in his home state of Wis.is preparing him for a possible future fight ...Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, 3 short takes, and a homemade cartoon (shown).Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>See 1st comment.Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Lots of people love the birds in their garden, but it's rare for that affection to be reciprocated. One young girl in Seattle is luckier than most. She feeds the crows in her garden - and they bring her gifts in return. Submitted by Evelyn B. to Offbeat | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>An average of 1 in 45 American children become homeless every year — 1.6 million total in the United States. Stand with organizations like Horizons for Homeless Children and commit to getting America’s most vulnerable children off the streets!Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>They were Central Asian immigrants who dressed in hoodies and high-tops and looked younger than their 19 and 24 years. But prosecutors say they were headed to wage jihad in SyriaSubmitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Reality TV star Jessa Duggar lectured Christians in a lengthy Facebook post about God’s wrathful judgment. Duggar said the Bible teaches that God must punish sin with eternal damnation, and she sneered at "distorted" translations of the Bible that ...Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Submitted by Sara P. to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Mohamed Nasheed, the first-ever democratically elected President of the Maldives who was forced from power by the military in 2012, has been arrested and detained in jail by the authoritarian regime of Yameen Gayoom.
Nasheed's arm was badly hurt while Submitted by BMutiny TCorporationsEvil to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>In the video segment we’ve embedded below, you’ll see Ted Cruz ask people to text the word “constitution” to a telephone number. Why? Who knows. He didn’t say. But it seemed patriotic as all get out.Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Help protect Americans' retirement security by supporting new rules that would require financial advisers to act in the interest of their customers rather than for their own financial gain. Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Republican lawmakers pledged to try to overturn net-neutrality rules adopted Thursday by U.S. regulators, as a long-running battle over the handling of Internet traffic shifts to Congress and the courts.Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, a homemade cartoon (shown), and why I'm not here.Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Not what the trolls think at all! so-called “Islamic State” group (ISIS or ISIL) in Syria and Iraq is, and whether it is legitimate to speak of “Islamic” terrorism.It is not okay.Submitted by Jason R. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, 3 short takes, and a homemade cartoon (shown).Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>See 1st comment.Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Brussels is doing all it can to prevent refugees from reaching Fortress Europe, with initiatives like funding the construction of internment centers in Ukraine. Asylum seekers who have spent time there report miserable conditions and abuse. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>The warring parties in the brutal four-year-old military conflict in Syria, which has claimed the lives of over 200,000 civilians and triggered “the greatest refugee crisis in modern times,” continue to break every single pledge held out to the Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>It’s not just the potential for a catastrophic spill that makes President Obama’s proposal to open Atlantic Ocean waters to oil exploration such a bad idea. What’s worse is the cumulative impact on coastal ecosystems that an active oil industry wouSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Georgia Aquarium’s new Vice President has been filmed violently abusing animals at his former job. The Georgia Aquarium assumed it was safe to hire Jose Barbero because he had been a trainer at the aquarium Marineland Mallorca in Spain for over thirty Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>President Obama vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have approved the Keystone XL pipeline, making good on a threat to reject a proposal embraced by Republicans as a jobs measure but opposed by environmentalists as contributing to climate change.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Please support President Obama’s Wilderness recommendation for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and do everything you can to keep the Refuge off-limits to oil drilling.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>The Islamic State was repelled from the city weeks ago, but residents have been unable to return home. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Montana legislators have brushed off the attempts of farmers, ranchers and landowners to effect 'zoning' regulations to protect them, their land, their water and their livestock from the toxic impacts of fracking.Now they say: 'See you in Court!'Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>“I don’t know.” Thus proclaimed Scott Walker, the Wisconsin governor and Republican presidential hopeful, when asked by The Post's Dan Balz and Robert Costa on Saturday whether President Obama is a Christian.Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Republicans had better divert some of their campaign cash toward finding a cure for Obama Derangement Syndrome. If they don't, their nemesis will beat them in a third consecutive presidential contest ~ without, of course, actually being on the ballot.Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>The father of potential 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) claimed the Congressional Black Caucus only opposed war because they wanted more money for food stamps.Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Member of the Bil'in popular committee Mohammed Khatib and a UK citizen and solidarity volunteer Michael "Mick" Bowman were both violently arrested. At the demonstration, Palestinian activists carried posters honoring Kayla Mueller and condemning ...Submitted by Carrie B. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Saleh's family lives very near the illegal Israeli settlement in Tel Rumeida, occupied by some of Palestine's most violent Zionist settlers. Israeli occupation forces and settlers have repeatedly targeted the Abu Shamsiya family. Submitted by Carrie B. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment]]>Agriculture in Gaza is suffering after the Israeli decision to ban vegetable exports from the Strip to the West Bank. “So far, the Strip's agricultural export losses amounted to about $40 million a year, since the beginning of the siege in 2006.”